I agree about exploring proof-of-stake coins. I got had by that whole XPY hashstaker thing courtesy of our friends at GAW. I became very alarmed by what i saw going on with scrypt.cc. I decided that I needed to put my funds somewhere where I had control of them.
HYP has been very solid. I´ve been in that since last fall. HYP seems to have one of the most active development teams. Presstab is always on here. I had huge holdings in Mintcoin last year. I got rid of them because I needed the cash, and Mint didn´t seem to be doing much. I wish to heck I had been able to hold on to them. The price of Mint has gone crazy in the last few months.
It´s definitely a learning experience.
HYP is very good, I have been working closely with presstab on a number of different things. A number of people around this topic also warned about XPY and why it could not work and you get the same resistance from people, you present the math of the matter of why it cannot be possible with solid arguments and proof and people turn a blind eye and call FUD, lose a bunch of money and later on realize the trolls were trying to help.
I posted a pretty good list of POS Coins a few pages back if you are looking for a few alternatives.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444495.msg11776285#msg11776285You know what? You´re right, many those people that were accused of FUD were trying to help. I got carried away by XPY (and greed.) I didn´t want to consider the possibility that I could have gotten scammed. I was getting the same proverbial bad feeling here, and decided that I better act on this when I had the chance. As long as I keep my wallet backed up, and am able to generate the necessary private keys, I have control of the funds. I´ve decided that this is better for now.